Modern remote and automated observation systems like satellites, drones, and time-lapse cameras are transforming scientific discovery. Thes...

This year is the hottest in history, with record-breaking temperatures in the atmosphere and oceans acting like fuel for extreme weather ar...

West Rajasthan has experienced above-normal rainfall for the past 20 years, highlighting shifting monsoon patterns due to climate change. U...

Happy Thursday! The government is planning a separate digital competition law instead of tweaking the existing Competition Act to regulate ...

A competition among plants, over water may have been the cause all along.

Experts said the unusually early heat wave was a sign of what's to come as global warming continues, moving up in the calendar the extreme ...

"This is one of the most extreme heat waves that we have seen on Earth, in many years, anywhere, in terms of the deviation from the typical...

The extreme and dangerous heat was expected to break all-time records in cities and towns from eastern Washington state to Portland to sout...

To produce a kilogramme of rice, 2,500-5,500 litres of water is needed, as per the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

The Statue of Liberty, Uganda's gorilla forest, Stonehenge and Venice - the United Nations listed 31 protected sites threatened by sea leve...

Tharparkar, a desert district of the country's southern Sindh province along India's Rajasthan state, has been in the grip of drought for a...

In an interview, Secretary of State John Kerry signaled that the report's findings would influence US foreign policy.

Gujarat suggested that funding pattern of centrally -sponsored schemes should not be changed to the disadvantage of the states for the dura...

The monsoon has regularly stumped forecasters in the first decade of the 21st century, during which the country faced the driest June in 10...

India faces the risk of devastating droughts as monsoon rainfall can fall up to 70% short in the years ahead, ravaging crops and unsettling...

The desert in twin district of Barmer is more green than it has ever been. According to Dr J P Singh, a scientist with the Central Arid Zon...

A formless wasteland merging into a mirage on the border, Kachchh emerges from adversity like a resilient phoenix.